business.
quot;Do you remember t walk ; she asked.
I nodded, wis broug up.
quot;You promised to make it up to me,quot; she said.
For a moment I Id done t already on.
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I remembered seeing tainers in places like Cecils Diner and ter. My friends and I used to toss paper clips and slugs in t looking, since t of like a coin being dropped inside, to ourselves about ting someto joke about ing somet, and s out and find not slugs and paper clips. Sometimes, makes you s exactly w I did.
Jamie sahe look on my face.
quot;You dont o do it,quot; sed. quot;I t since Cmas is coming up so quickly and I dont ll simply take me too long to collect them all. . . .”
quot;No,quot; I said cutting ;Ill do it. I dont o do anyway.”
So ts arting ednesday, even tests to study for, even application needing to be finis of every place sarted at to out about sixty cans in all, and I figured t it ake only a day to collect to putting t, it aken Jamie almost six o do because s o find sixty empty jars and cans and t out only t a time. arted out, I felt sort of funny about being t it , but I kept telling myself t Jamie o help.
I from business to business, collecting t day I realized it o take a little longer t.
Id picked up only about ty containers or so, because Id forgotten one simple fact of life in Beaufort. In a small to o simply run inside and grab t cting or or saying o someone else you mig just done. So Id sit talking about t fall, or tion t ted my opinion on ore. Jamie, I kneried to act like I t s me to. It er all.
to keep t stop to cake in bet dumped one jar or can into t, combining t along. By t day all to my room. I sa too many-but I actually nervo